Word: cannoneering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents deserted downtown Ascuncion streets Thursday when firefights involving cannon, recoilless rifles and heavy machine guns broke out in the most serious incident against Stroessner since he took power...
...throughout the capital. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, who became the embodiment of the White House press corps during the Reagan era, stepped aside after twelve years on the beat to co-anchor a new ABC prime-time news hour due later this year. The Washington Post's Lou Cannon, who started covering Reagan in his early days in California, began a leave of absence to write a book about the Reagan presidency...
Campaigning techniques at Boston area schools range from traditional postering and speechmaking tactics to zanier projects like the cannon-painting war that takes place at Tufts...
Every election year, political groups at the school's Medford campus try to best each other in painting political slogans on a replica of the U.S.S. Constitution's cannon, said Eunice E. Kim, chairman of the Tufts Republican Club. "We hope to be the one who gets [the cannon] last," Kim said. She added that the Republicans plan to post a guard at the cannon for about five hours on election night to prevent the Democrats from winning the game...
According to Baker Aide James Cannon, who wrote the memo, some aides had taken to signing Reagan's initials on official documents because he was so out of touch. But Cannon says that when he and Baker observed the President at their first meeting together, he was back in top form. Cannon told TIME he made his recommendation after talking to 15 to 20 White House aides, who convinced him that Reagan's short days and heavy delegation of responsibility had become a serious problem. Reagan, relaxing at a White House picnic, said, "There isn't an iota of truth...